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🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Phil Sime visits a farm near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire to speak to blind farmer Mike Duxbury and his partner Ness Shillitto about creating Scotland’s first inclusive farm. This is a place where people with disabilities will gain the confidence, skills and opportunity to pursue a career in agriculture.
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sing Sing and I'm Simon Jack. And Good Bad Billionaire is back. It's the podcast |
0:06.2 | exploring the lives and livelihoods of some of the world's richest people, but this time there's |
0:10.6 | a twist. On Good Bad Dead billionaire, we are looking back on the lives of some titans of |
0:15.6 | US industry. Like the first ever billionaire, John D. Rockefeller. The founder of the Ford |
0:20.3 | Motor Company, Henry Ford. |
0:21.9 | And the First Lady of Wall Street, Hetty Green. |
0:24.3 | And Simon and I are asking you if they were good, bad or just another billionaire. |
0:28.4 | Good bad billionaire. |
0:29.5 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:32.7 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:42.6 | Music Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. Hello and thank you for choosing to listen to this podcast. |
0:46.4 | I'm Phil Syme and 10 years ago I completely lost my sight, which was life-changing. |
0:52.4 | But I was very fortunate in the sense that I worked in an industry |
0:55.8 | where technology allowed me to present and produce podcasts just like this one. |
1:01.8 | However, there are lots of other careers out there that are completely inaccessible |
1:06.6 | or very difficult for people with disabilities to work in. |
1:30.3 | An example of that might be farming because the environment is so unpredictable. In fact, it's probably one of the toughest industries for people with disabilities to break into. But that could all be about to change. Because farmer Mike Duxbury and his partner Ness |
1:34.3 | are in the process of creating Scotland's first inclusive farm in a boine. |
1:40.3 | Well you're on our farm which is called Newton of Drum drummy we're facing down over the farm looking over the bottom |
1:48.6 | big six acre field to the drummy woods to my right i'm looking across a building site which is all the |
1:57.2 | buildings we've had knocked down ready for the new build. Behind me, a big field with sheep in it. |
2:03.2 | And then to my left, another field which is currently empty, |
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